inSite_05: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego Tijuana
26 August - 13 November 2005
For more information contact:
Public Relations: Papus von Saenger
Tel. 619.230.0005
papus@insite05.org
www.insite05.org
Photo: Marcela Quiroz
Executive Directors: Michael Krichman Carmen Cuenca Artistic Director: Osvaldo Sanchez Curators: Ute Meta Bauer Hans Fjellestad Adriano Pedrosa Osvaldo Sanchez Mark Tribe Sally Yard Associate Curators: Donna Conwell Marcela Quiroz Luna Tania Ragasol
inSite announces the launch of its website, and outlines its program for 2005. Structured as a matrix based on the four components of inSite_05 -Interventions, Scenarios, Conversations, and Museum Exhibition- www.insite05.org was conceived with the aim of making evident the processual nature of inSite_05. Created by fdt design, www.insite05.org will incorporate additional web-based projects, including Tijuana Calling, a commissioned program of online work and Insight_Transborder Archive, an open archive linking individuals and institutions across the San Diego-Tijuana border.
inSite is a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects that maps the dynamics of permeability and blockage that characterize the liminal border zone of San Diego-Tijuana. Over the course of twelve years, since its inception in 1992, inSite has focused on the specificity of the San Diego-Tijuana corridor as a context of unexpected political and cultural rearticulations.
inSite_05 seeks to interweave situations of flux, mobility, and experiences of interconnectedness. It brings together a group of artists and curators who aspire to stimulate the gestation of new utopias of belonging and dynamics of creative association through artistic practices. inSite_05 will attempt to encourage art experiences in the public arena that explore and unravel the social weave of the San Diego-Tijuana region.
inSite_05began in 2003 and will unfold as four related components through the end of 2005. The Interventions component of inSite_05 was initiated in the fall of 2003 with a series of artists’ residencies that will continue throughout 2004. Conversations commenced with a three-day dialogue in November 2003 that included academics, artists, geographers, philosophers, and diverse practitioners. Within inSite_05′s two-year timeframe, there will be a concentrated phase of public presentation that will take place between August and November 2005.
Interventions/ Bypass/ Curator: Osvaldo Sanchez/ Since its inception, inSite has focused on commissioning artistic interventions in the social fabric of San Diego-Tijuana. Developing from a series of artists’ residencies, twenty-five artist’s projects will be inserted in the urban flows of the region. The residencies provide an experiential understanding of sites and social actors specific to the border region, facilitating strategies that permit the artists to activate new dynamics of collaboration.
Scenarios/ Online Project: Tijuana Calling/ Curator: Mark Tribe/ Live Visual and Sound Image Event: Ellipsis/ Curator: Hans Fjellestad/ Archive project: Insight_Transborder Archive/ Curator: Ute Meta Bauer/ Scenarios will support cultural practices that transcend the physical nature of ‘site’, but are nevertheless key to the construction of ‘public’ as a space of discourse.
Conversations/ Curator: Sally Yard/ Envisioned as an ongoing series of dialogues, workshops, lectures, and publications, Conversations will explore inSite’s potential as an arena for intellectual exchange and theoretical reflection.
Museum Exhibition/ FarSites/ Curator: Adriano Pedrosa/ Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art, the Centro Cultural Tijuana, and inSite, FarSites will weave together the work of contemporary artists, documentary material, and cultural products from five major cities in the Americas to produce a fabric of urban narratives.
inSite_05 will extend, as an open public program, from August 26, 2005 until November 13, 2005.
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710 13th Street, Suite #305, San Diego, CA 92101
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Collaborating Institutions/ Atheneaum Music and Arts Library Centro Cultural de la Raza Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Mexico City Instituto de Cultura de Baja California Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) San Diego Museum of Art University of California, San Diego. The Stuart Collection University of California, San Diego. Department of Visual Arts
Major Sponsors/ The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Burnham Foundation Centro Cultural Tijuana City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Fundacion BBVA Bancomer Fundacion Cuervo Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild Hotel Habita Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes The James Irvine Foundation Fundacion Jumex The Lucille and Ronald Neeley Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Panta Rhea Foundation Fundacion Televisa Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
inSITE2000-01 Catalogue/ ISBN: 0-9642554-4-8,/ Available at The D. A. P. CATALOG at www.artbook.com
